Of course, such
examples
and tendencies mean neither that we can exclude texts valued as 'classic' in certain national cultures today nor that, with the exception of cer- tain wistful academic imaginings, a developing global canon is really discernible.
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Cambridge,
University
press, 1906.
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Demosthenes - Against Midias |
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In countries like Belgium
and Holland, which have most unfortunately
for the proper growth of
international
law long
been the chief centres of its study, there has sprung
up a sentimental conception of it, begotten no
doubt by unceasing fear of attack from outside.
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Treitschke - 1914 - His Doctrine of German Destiny |
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It was
there that the two most
illustrious
generals
of Europe, Gustavus Adolphus and Tilly,
were to measure themselves in a battle
which should decide not only on which
side was the superiority, but the future of
Protestantism and Catholicism.
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Abelous - Gustavus Adolphus - Hero of the Reformation |
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In pursuance of this order Licinius Nerva, then praetor in Sicily,
appointed
hearings and set free so many slaves that in a few days above eight hundred gained their liberty; so that all the slaves in Sicily were hereby encouraged and grew confident in their hope of liberty.
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Diodorus Siculus - Historical Library |
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I forbade
Your very name to be
pronounced
before me.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 - Rab to Rus |
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Francesca
came in out of the night
YOAUnd there were flowers in your hands, Now you will come out of a
confusion
of people, Out of a turmoil of speech about you.
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That something hidden away in my nature, like a
treasure
in a field, is
Humility.
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Wilde - De Profundis |
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On the one hand, psychiatric knowledge really tried to construct itsell on the model ol medicine observation, of inquiry and demonstration; it really tried to
constitute
a symptomato- logical type of knowledge for itself; a description of different illnesses was actually constituted, etcetera, but, to tell the truth, this was only the cover and justification for an activity situated elsewhere, and this activity was precisely that of deciding between reality or lie, reality or simulation.
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Referring to such purchases from the Mutual
Life, as well as from the Equitable, the Pujo
Committee found:
"Here, then, were stocks of five important
trust
companies
and one of our largest national
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Louis Brandeis - 1914 - Other People's Money, and How Bankers Use It |
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Miles, ut non est satis utilis
emeritis
annis,
Ponit ad antiquos Lares arma, quae tulit.
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Latin - Bradley - Exercises in Latin Prosody |
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He replaced the tradition, respected of
his fathers, by an
observation
more vivid and less pedantic than
the note-book of the naturalist.
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Lucian - True History |
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LIFE
Children, ye have not lived, to you it seems
Life is a lovely
stalactite
of dreams,
Or carnival of careless joys that leap
About your hearts like billows on the deep
In flames of amber and of amethyst.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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[246]
Now, I suppose, I have tried your
patience
fairly.
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Robert Forst |
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The Republic therefore hath made a general
Ceflion of all her Dominions, and Confederates; hath given
an Oath to Philip, that you fhall oppofe whoever prefumes
to
preferve
them to her ; that whoever fhall attempt to reftore
them fhall be declared an Enemy, while he, who hath depri-
ved her of them, fliall be deemed a Confederate and Ally.
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Nor did any one ever give me any
lessons--a
circumstance
for which I was not sorry.
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Dostoevsky - Poor Folk |
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Then, having
prepared
the paste, insert the whole carefully; adding at the
same time a small pigeon, 2 slices of beef, 4 cauliflowers, and any number
of oysters.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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[146] Gades, now Cadiz, an ancient and still
flourishing
seaport of
Spain.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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After the other Counsellors died,
"the Senate left their whole duties to Sarpi, so that he held entire
control of the legal and theological principles of Venice, and
-was
practically
dictator of all its affairs ; and he held this office
for 17 years until ?
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Sarpi - 1888 - History of Fra Paolo Sarpi 2 |
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It is the object always present as the meaning of all my attitudes and all my con- duct-and always absent, for it gives itself to the
intuition
of another as a perpetual question:.
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Apologies
for this problem.
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Dostoevsky - The Idiot |
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Cease, cease, my foolish babe,
What you are saying is sorrowful to me--much it displeases me;
Behold with the rest, again I say--behold not banners and
pennants
aloft;
But the well-prepared pavements behold--and mark the solid-walled houses.
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Whitman |
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The existing
store of such tricks and nicknames is inexhaustible, and is
constantly enriched by fresh additions; and it would be in
vain to attempt here any
complete
enumeration of them.
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Fichte - Nature of the Scholar |
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“Through no fault of yours” : the Greek is “at any rate as far as you are
concerned
it has (i.
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Theocritus - Idylls |
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A Saïte, who, having been
invested
with the
(Plin.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a |
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Then indeed would the individual man be confronted with something for which only the Old Testament names of Behemoth or
Leviathan
seem ap- propriate.
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Propaganda - 1943 - New Collectivist Propaganda |
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"
So she swallowed one of the cakes and was delighted to find that she
began
shrinking
directly.
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll |
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Hath not the potter power
over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and
another unto
dishonour?
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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t :
;i*a*;
re+EiEiz
ji ;"i i;
ii
ii; i;: : ; -'i; a
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Sloterdijk - Spheres - v1 |
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Except for the limited right of
replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
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Austen - Northanger Abbey |
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,
five years later, as is shown by their
imitation
of Propertius
(Xemethy.
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Ovid - 1869 - Juvenile Works and Spondaic Period |
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Hitler's succession of unopposed victories has imparted to his dictatorial dynamism a momentum which he will find it hard either to maintain or to reduce without weakening his
personal
prestige.
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Propaganda - 1939 - Foreign Affairs - Will Hitler Save Democracy |
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To this I reply
that these trivial matters—diet, locality, climate,
and one's mode of recreation, the whole
casuistry
of
self-love—are inconceivably more important than
all that which has hitherto been held in high esteem.
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Nietzsche - v17 - Ecce Homo |
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XXIII
I loved thee, Atthis, in the long ago,
When the great
oleanders
were in flower
In the broad herded meadows full of sun.
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Sappho |
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, to be so stupid that one understands nothing, to have no
inclination
whatsoever for studying and to be born in a poor and barren country.
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Huge sea-wood fed with copper
Burned green and orange, framed by the
coloured
stone,
In which sad light a carved dolphin swam.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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I did not speak of such a succession in time at
all; but I think that when thou reflectest upon that undi-
vided consciousness of thyself and of the external object,
distinguish est between them, and
inquirest
into their con-
nexion, thou wilt find that the latter can be conceived of
only as conditioned by the former, and as only possible on
the supposition of its existence; but not vice versa.
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Fichte - Nature of the Scholar |
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Only blindness and
deafness
can keep you unaware of these proclamations.
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Ezra-Pound-World-War-II-Broadcasts |
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But their
opposition
was removed by "treaty, which was
more agreeable (than war) to the Nizam's general method of pro-
ceeding", and he reached Aurangabad in April.
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Cambridge History of India - v4 - Mugul Period |
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He married her, against her will and advice, but, as he thought always of his own interests only, made her keep their marriage secret, so that his career as a teacher and
potential
churchman might not be jeopardised.
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise - 1st Letter |
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Slowly the
dullness
and heaviness melted
from his face; it became radiant.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v22 - Sac to Sha |
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The
relevance
of both to the
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Robertson - Bismarck |
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Mr
Lackersteen
had vanished again.
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Orwell - Burmese Days |
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Both
There is a church, dedicated in his name, in
Clonfert
Diocese, and not far from the Kill-
these places named, adjoined houses of those saints alluded to in the text.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v8 |
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You must require such a user to return or
destroy all copies of the works
possessed
in a physical medium
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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In 1080 Sung Min-ch'iu
published
the works in thirty _chuan_, the form
in which they still exist.
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Li Po |
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Twin-sister of religion,
selfishness!
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Shelley copy |
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"
Having said all this, they looked to mTsho-rgyal for extensive pre- dictions, which are
presented
in summary here:
"E Ma Ho!
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THU female quickly to her mistress went;
Our
charming
little dog to represent:
The various pow'rs displayed, and wonders done;
Yet scarcely had she on the knight begun,
And mentioned what he wished her to unfold,
But Argia could her rage no longer hold;
A fellow!
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La Fontaine |
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"
He heard the little
hysterical
gulp and took it for tribute.
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Kipling - Poems |
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" It was always upon some
not less solid foundation that
Coleridge
built these delicate structures.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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When Gordius was
ploughing
in these parts, with oxen that he had hired, birds of every kind began to fly about him.
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Justinus - Epitome of Historae Philippicae |
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For fire o'ermastered
And licked up many things and burnt away,
What time the impetuous horses of the Sun
Snatched
Phaethon headlong from his skiey road
Down the whole ether and over all the lands.
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Lucretius |
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Lord Henry and the Lady Adeline
Departed
like the rest of their compeers,
The peerage, to a mansion very fine;
The Gothic Babel of a thousand years.
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Bryon - Don Juan |
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Mouse laid down her pen and
breathed
a
sigh of relief.
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Childrens - Brownies |
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Given the complex image production process, nobody today can still claim that they alone have an
overview
of this technical production process and can see the consequences in this highly specialized process.
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Sloterdijk - Selected Exaggerations |
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—
mannerisms
of, x.
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Nietzsche - v18 - Epilogue, Index |
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When to this city, near her sylvan haunt,
Young
Flordespine
invited Bradament.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso - English |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Within the vastness of
spontaneous
self-knowing, let be freely, uncontrived and free of
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Prometheus, forced, they say, to add
To his prime clay some
favourite
part
From every kind, took lion mad,
And lodged its gall in man's poor heart.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to The American Political Science Review.
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Nolte - The Stable Crisis- Two Decades of German Foreign Policy |
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He was doing
something
in the cellar--something which
took many hours a day for months on end.
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Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
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Usage guidelines
Google is proud to partner with libraries to
digitize
public domain materials and make them widely accessible.
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Burke - 1790 - Revolution in France |
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4310
Now
Ielousye
ful wel may be
Of drede devoid, in libertee,
Whether that he slepe or wake;
For of his roses may noon be take.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Quadrupeds are
confined
to
their coverts and the birds sit upon their perches this peaceful hour.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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In any case, the English Brut is not based on the printed
Brut of Wace, but on one of the later
versions
of which certain
MSS remain and of which other traces can be found.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v01 |
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FINTAN—HIS PARENTAGE AND RACE —OPPOSITION OFFERED TO HIS PREACHING BY A CERTAIN
DYNAST—CONVERSION
OF ST.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v1 |
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What then have we learned from our
examination
of the world of perception?
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Mεᴙleau-Ponty-World-of-Pεrcεption-2004 |
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First, we have to
organize
this end within each single university; second, we must pose a new question.
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To this
gentlewoman
Addison made a present, and promised some
establishment, but died soon after.
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Tagore:
Rabindranath
Tagore (1861-1941), Bengali poet, dramatist and mystic; acquaintance of Pound and Yeats.
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One's
behavior
should always be well guarded, especially by a Brahmana.
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Universal Anthology - v01 |
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35-61; the tests of,
56; a
characteristic
of, 91.
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Nietzsche - v18 - Epilogue, Index |
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The
controversy
at first
turned mainly upon its religious tendency.
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This volume will, as I need not assure you, do little or nothing to dispel their illusion, or to diminish the
reputation
of Heloise and Abelard.
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise - 1st Letter |
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Would he act
unhandsomely
or no?
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Erasmus |
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In proof of it, he says his mother belonged to James Bibb,
which is a lie, there not having been such a man about here,
much less brother of
Secretary
Bibb.
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"
15
"" Where is the
Picturesque
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Ezra-Pound-Lustra |
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Kogen Mizuno gives, as a
definition
of abhidhamma in his Index to the Pali Canon (Part II, p.
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So twixt each morn and night rise salient heaps:
Some cross with but a zigzag, jaded pace
From meal to meal: some with convulsive leaps
Shake the green tussocks of malign disgrace:
And some advance by system and deep art
O'er
vantages
of wealth, place, learning, tact.
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Sidney Lanier |
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As Voltaire would later put it: "C'est la
religion
dont le ze`le inhumain / Met a` tous les Franc?
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Cult of the Nation in France |
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The
garlands
wither on your brow;
Then boast no more your mighty deeds;
Upon Death's purple altar now
See where the victor-victim bleeds:
Your heads must come
To the cold tomb;
Only the actions of the just
Smell sweet, and blossom in their dust.
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Golden Treasury |
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The natives called the
promontory
Taphitis.
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Charles - 1867 - Classical Dictionary |
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Finally public opinion became so enraged against this unnatural father-in-law that he was
banished
from Korea.
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mer--a
lifelong
friend and prote?
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Trakl - Bringing Blood to Trakl’s Ghost |
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I still expect that a philo-
sophical physician, in the exceptional sense of the
word—one who applies himself to the problem of
the collective health of peoples, periods, races, and
mankind generally—will some day have the courage
to follow out my
suspicion
to its ultimate con-
clusions, and to venture on the judgment that in
all philosophising it has not hitherto been a question
## p.
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Nietzsche - v10 - The Joyful Wisdom |
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[_He goes with_
ALCESTIS
_into the house_.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Eliot
hov^ever
gave up his Sanskrit.
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Ezra-Pound-Japan-Letters-essays |
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These Athena
persuaded
to make
peace and aid in the founding of Thebes.
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; speaking without
judgement
or measure.
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" * The reasons stated
for the proposed repeal coincided exactly with those urged
in the formal utterances of the
merchant
class in America.
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Arthur Schlesinger - Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution |
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Lầm rầm khấn khứa nhỏ to,
Sụp ngồi vài gật
trước
mồ bước ra.
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Dzongsar-Khyentse-Longchen-Nyingthig-Practice-Manual |
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FIRST OLYMPIC
His haughty soul incensed to ire The might of his
immortal
sire ;
'er his head a massy rock And scare his proud felicity .
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Pindar |
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One accent of the Holy Ghost
The
heedless
world hath never lost.
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They were much
resorted to by those who wished to take exercise without
exposure
to the
heat of the sun.
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Ovid - Art of Love |
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